by wrightd. First time fanfiction by a member of the LHS Bridges sumemr program. As Joan woke up to the bright sunlight coming through her bedroom window she looked to the left of her and saw some unknown male lying next to her. “Who is this man,” she pon

As Joan woke up to the
bright sunlight coming through her bedroom window she looked to the
left of her and saw some unknown male lying next to her. "Who is
this man," she pondered.

Just as soon as she
had spoken did he wake, "Hey baby, how'd you sleep?"

"Who are you," Joan
asked.

"You don't remember
me," the unknown male said, hurt. "I'm Julian. Remember, I
bought you like three Vodka's last night, and then we hit the floor
and started dancing."

Joan, thinking hard
vaguely remembered a tall, dark, handsome, buff, dude who had the
cleanest waves in his head, who was dressed in Sean Jean from head to
toe, but she didn't remember coming back to the house with him; but
evidently she had, but what had they done?

"Oh yeah, how could I
forget you," Joan said slyly trying to play off her ignorance. I
remember you; you're Julian, fine Julian. Say Julian, what did we
do after we got off the floor last night, because frankly I don't
remember much about last night; you know it's all a little hazy."

Julian, must not
catching onto the fear in Joan's words answered, "Oh, nothing
much, we drank another round of drinks, then we left there about 3 in
the morning, and went to your Maya's house, and stayed there about
an hour, and eventually we came home.

Now as they both began
to get out the bed and make their way to the kitchen, Joan noticed
how tore up the room looked; there were clothes and pillows scattered
left and right all over the floor, vases overturned and a lot of
other things out of place. The worry really began to kick in now.
"What to do," thought Joan? "I know what. I'ma call Maya to
see what happened." Joan quickly went to go get her phone that was
all the way in the very back of the house. Next she locked herself in
the back room and quickly dialed her friend's number.

"Hello?" Maya
answered still sounding sleepy.

"Maya, girl this is
Joan. Girl please tell me you know this man that's over her in my
house, "Joan practically screamed into the phone.

"Yeah girl, that's
my cousin Julian, remember I told you I found you a blind date.
What's wrong girl, he ain't treating you right, because ya know I
can be over there real quick."

"Naw girl I woke up
thinking I was alone in the bed, when I turn around and hear this
deep voice, and then I see all these clothes over the floor and then
I don't remember anything….."

"Ewww girl y'all
did the nasty!" was all Joan heard on the other end of the
receiver, coming from her best friend.

"Oh girl, put him on
the phone; put Julian on the phone," Maya urged on.

"Anyways, what you
plan on doing today," asked the noisy friend, "I mean you do
have a man over your house for the first time in, what has it been, a
good six months."

"Nothing, I'm going
to do nothing. But I need to get back to him, so I will call you
later—okay?"

"Okay"

As Joan hung up the
phone and turned around, she saw Julian, who was only covered up by a
baby blue towel.

"So—, there was a
long moment of silence, and a lot of tension in the air. Joan took
the initiative and made the first move.

"Look, I'm sorry,
seriously I don't remember anything about last night, the only
thing that I do know is that you're Julian, Maya's cousin. So
what I'm going to need you to do is get your stuff and leave—not
to be rude or anything but please, just go.

A faint, "okay" was
the only thing that was heard.

Even though the day
started really weird, Joan was determined not to let that affect the
rest of her day. After Julian left, which was around 1p.m .Joan
jumped into the shower. Next she went about her regular schedule of
flat ironing her hair, brushing her teeth, you know all the
"must-do's" Joan called up Toni to see what was up with her.

"Hey girl, what's
up?"

"Oh hey Joan, nothing
much, I'm out shopping with Madison' I decided to do the motherly
thing today," Toni said as she chuckled.

"Oh nice the motherly
thing, and what would that be? Where exactly are you out
shopping—Babies R Us?"

"Of course not girl;
what would I look like in some cheap store like that, oh never! I am
at the ever famous La Rouge"

"I thought that was a
store for people like us, not babies?" Joan asked confused.

"Duh! Oh you thought
I meant I was out shopping for Madison? Girl naw her days to go
shopping is Tuesday and Thursday—my days on the other hand are;
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

"You throwed girl!
But anyways I was wondering if you wanted to hang out today, ooh girl
do I have some drama to tell you!"

"What, What? Oh girl
I'm on my way over there now. Hold- on give me about ten minutes,
and I'll be pulling up." As Joan looks at the clock, she realizes
that ten minutes have passed by, she looks again and another ten
minutes has passed bye, she looks yet again and realizes that thirty
minutes has passed by. Ding Dong! Joan rushes to the door to find
a bogged down Toni holding about 15 bags of clothes and a baby.

"Now that's
multitasking," Joan thought to herself.

"Sorry I was late,
but as I was leaving I passed the shoe store and I couldn't resist
myself."

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